HTC launches Desire 826 priced at Rs 25,990 in India

New Delhi: Taiwanese handset maker HTC on Saturday launched a new smartphone Desire 826 that belongs to its widely anticipated flagship Desire series in India and it comes with the price tag of Rs 25,990. The handset which got official in early 2015 is already being sold in China.

Faisal Siddiqui, President, South Asia, HTC was quoted as saying on the launch of the new entrant, “Our consumer today represents an individuality that has quite a resolute fabric, each one being a strong and special personality in their own stride. The HTC desire 826 is yet another effort of ours to combine superior quality features in a stunning smartphone at a smart price.”

The company is widely recognised for the sound quality they provide in their smartphones. HTC has again created a new high by enthusing the HTC Desire 826 with truly immersive BoomSound quality paired with Dolby Audio1 surround sound.

The HTC Desire 826 features 5.5 inch display with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The handset runs on Android OS, v5.0.1 (Lollipop). Along with this, it is clocked at Qualcomm's Snapdragon 615 chipset paired with octa-core CPU, with four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7 GHz and another four only going up to 1 GHz which is complimented by 2GB RAM.

It gets 13-megapixel camera on the rear surface with LED flash and a 4-megapixel camera on the front surface. The body of the device carries non-removable Li-Po 2600 mAh battery for long lasting usage. On the connectivity front, the device is blessed with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA and hotspot.

The HTC Desire 826 embraces 16GB internal storage capacity which can be expandable up to 128 GB. The HTC Desire is up for grabs in India and the company will subsequently launch the Desire member in other countries as well.